While some actors rely on prosthetics for movie transformations, some in truth achieve or lose weight to embody their characters.

Renée Zellweger famously gained 30 pounds to play the titular role in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, repeating the method again for the 2004 sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. By the time she filmed Bridget Jones’s Baby, alternatively, the Oscar winner was tired of talking about her weight.

“I put on a couple of pounds. I also put on some breasts and a child bump,” she instructed British Vogue in August 2016. “Bridget is a perfectly commonplace weight and I’ve by no means understood why it issues so much. No male actor would get such scrutiny if he did the similar thing for a role.”

To Zellweger’s point, male stars more frequently make headlines when they lose a large number of weight for a task, as Matthew McConaughey did for the 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club. The Mud famous person shed nearly 50 pounds to play Ron Woodruff, a real-life Texan who founded an underground medication distribution group after being diagnosed with HIV. (McConaughey won a Best Actor Oscar for the function.)

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“I did it in as wholesome a way as I found imaginable,” the Greenlights writer advised the BBC in February 2014, including that he “chewed a large number of ice” during the shoot. “I met with a nutritionist. I gave myself 4 months to lose the weight. I had my programmed foods, lost 3.Five pounds a week — like clockwork — and got down to my desired weight, which became out to be forty seven kilos lighter.”

Keep scrolling to peer which celebrities have gained or lost weight for film roles:

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